ARMED CELL

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

This series began from the “desire for a poetics adequate to the present, the world since the 2008 economic crisis” (“Post-Crisis Poetics”). To continue constructing a network of practices and encourage discussion, that essay closed with an invitation for views of what writing can contribute to further investigating the post-crisis present.

ARMED CELL 12 was first distributed at Desert Poetry, Landers and Joshua Tree, April 7-9, 2017. ARMED CELL 13 will appear in October 2017. Submit cover images and writing by the end of August 2017 for consideration.

Friday, March 31, 2017

Editor Brian Ang’s “Post-Crisis Poetics” essay closed with an invitation for views of what writing can contribute to investigating the post-crisis present, the world since the 2008 economic crisis. Through April, in alphabetical order, views from numerous writers will be serialized a piece per day at postcrisispoetics.blogspot.com.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Editor Brian Ang in conversation about post-crisis poetics with Caleb Beckwith at The Conversant.

“I launched ARMED CELL in 2011 at the Durruti Free Skool, convened by Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr in Berkeley. Our projects shared a desire for a social poetics, a poetics resonant with social struggles. The magazine’s first poem, David Lau’s “Communism Today,” takes as its context the California anti-austerity university struggles that began in 2009, the first significant resistance to the 2008 economic crisis in the United States, as Jasper Bernes has argued. Joshua, David, Jasper, and I were participants in those struggles; responding to the crisis was central to participants’ practical understanding, that the crisis crystallized the secular stagnation of systemic capital accumulation projecting an absent future of exacerbated dispossession, exploitation, and unemployment, and we extended our investigations through poetry. My editing has emphasized a multiplicity of writing attuned to senses since the crisis; I first named “post-crisis poetics” in my analysis of “Communism Today” and extended the term in my essay analyzing writing from every issue to that time. My essay closed with an invitation to readers for further views for a series that I’m editing in order to continue developing this historical perspective’s suggestiveness for writing.”

ARMED CELL 11 was first distributed at the David Lau, Brian Ang, and Molly Bendall reading at the Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, October 29, 2016. ARMED CELL 12 will appear in April 2017. Submit cover images and writing by the end of February 2017 for consideration.

Friday, April 8, 2016

“Post-crisis poetics: desire for a poetics adequate to the present, the world since the 2008 economic crisis.” Analyzing David Lau, Josef Kaplan, Brian Ang, Steven Zultanski, Maya Weeks, Wendy Trevino and Dereck Clemons, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, Anne Lesley Selcer, and Rob Halpern, and with an invitation for further views. “Post-crisis poetics: construction of a network of practices adequate to writing the present, the post-crisis period in progress. Toward its construction, I’ve analyzed practices investigating multiple dimensions of the post-crisis world-system, suggesting lines for multiplying the communization of knowledge within the unfolding present. To continue construction and encourage discussion, readers are invited to give their views of what writing can contribute to further investigating the post-crisis present for a series that I’m editing to be published over the course of a month. Submit to armedcell@gmail.com by the end of July 2016 for consideration. The series will be published at postcrisispoetics.blogspot.com.”

MAYA WEEKS
from SERIAL POEM AGAINST THE STATE: THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS
“HOW WAS IT IN SACRAMENTO?”

DAVID LAU
LIKE A STORM SYSTEM OF POST-QE EMERGING MARKET BUBBLES

Edited by Brian Ang

Covers by alex cruse
from tactile return (2016)
axlecurse.tumblr.com

Physical edition of 100Free

ARMED CELL 10 was first distributed in Brian Ang and Jeff Derksen’s “Post-Crisis Militant Word” seminar in the Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years conference, University at Buffalo, April 9, 2016. ARMED CELL 11 will appear in October 2016. Submit cover images and writing by the end of August 2016 for consideration. Post-crisis poetics series: submit by the end of July 2016 for consideration.